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    LIBRARY



    Newsletter of New Zealand Library and Information Association
    Te Rau Herenga o Aotearoa October 1997 Issue number 217

    LIFE TI_= RAU ORA



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    DEFENDING THE INTANGIBLES : LIBRARY USERS’ GROUPS

    Soapbox will feature a guest columnist each issue, telling it as it
    is. Library Life asked Marie Russell, spokesperson for ”Owners of
    Wellington Library” (OWL), social researcher, mother and ex
    librarian, about the 90's version of Friends of the Library.

    Around the country, privatisers and advocates o[...]enefits are infuriatingly unquantifiable.

    Public Library users in Wellington at least are clear that
    yes, our new Central Library, 11 branches and mobile may
    cost us; but we're prepared to pay.

    In spite of the library system achieving top user satisfaction
    ratings, t[...]ser charges etc) have riled users
    and spurred two library users’ groups into action.

    City councillors as[...]anagers became besottedly evangelistic about BPR.
    Library staff — the people who have to make the new sys[...]rs, about it.
    In all of this, there is a role for library users’ groups.

    Library users’ groups may be a pain at times for librar[...]y) media, we have been able to express views
    that library staff couldn't or wouldn't, and raise awareness
    of library issues. We've stressed the often unquantifiable,[...]is one aspect.
    Getting those politicians into the library, to see what goes
    on, is crucial. We found many of our councillors aren't library
    users, and that they thought that people's library needs could
    be met through the Internet.

    When pu[...]ld’s
    knowledge, cultures and wisdom, the public library is a more
    complex institution : a free civic spac[...]atistics don't tell the half of what goes on in a library : and
    this is one of it's glorious mysteries; we[...]haia te iti Kahurangi Scholarship: Parliamentary

    Library Maori Staff Scholarship 11

    UJU'I&O"\l
    [...]anager and meeting secretary, and
    Hazel Dobbie as Library Life Editor. Steve and Hazel have had
    baptism by fire[...]together as well as doing the council minutes and Library Life
    while the new Pentium PC had a major meltdown.

    M[...]ave so successfully
    helped in the office and with Library Life over the last 12
    months as we have put the pieces[...]Committee will focus on three key areas: a
    public library policy which will set a minimum standard of
    publi[...]@fcl.co.nz








    EDITORIAL

    PUTTING LIFE INTO LIBRARY LIEE

    This is my first issue as the
    new [permanent] editor of
    Library Life. My goals are to
    put the life back into Library
    Life and to communicate and
    comment on issues in the
    library Er information industry.

    Congratulations and
    ‘[...]ns, SIGs,
    individuals who have
    voluntarily edited Library Life
    for the last year. Feedback
    indicates that member[...]firm and
    an intellectual property firm. I went to Library School in
    '82 (the year they asked if you could r[...]this
    months first guest columnist, commenting on library,
    information and industry issues. I hope you'll f[...]et.nz 1 Fax: 04/499 1480 (Attention : The
    Editor, Library L1fe)| Post: The Editor, Library Life, NZLIA, PO
    Box 12-212 Wellington.

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997
    [...]y Librarian at Lincoln
    University,
    positioned the Library within the
    wider university to enhance it's roles[...]ed units of the university,
    maintaining an active library presence
    at the top levels of university
    management, and enhancing the
    direct contribution of the library to the
    core activities of teaching and

    Ainslie s[...]nstituted initiatives to
    increase the role of the library in the
    provision of information literacy skills
    a[...]y requiring all first year
    students to complete a library
    orientation programme.

    Ainslie’s career has be[...]les on a variety of issues. Her
    commitment to the library profession
    is illustrated by her extensive and
    in[...]95.”

    Sue Sutherland,
    Manager
    Canterbury Public Library

    ”In recognition of her skills as a
    library manager of one of New
    Zealand’s largest public libraries and
    her commitment to the library and
    information profession.

    As manager of Canterbury Public
    Library, Sue has adopted significant
    new approaches to the
    organisational structure of the
    library as well as overseeing a major
    building project in the Central
    Library, and planning for a renewed
    emphasis on the provi[...]he Bertelmann
    Foundation’s International Public
    Library Network.

    Sue has been actively involved
    in the N[...]riod,
    including a term as President in
    1991/92."

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997



    Chris Wilson,
    Associate Lib[...]developing a
    technical infrastructure to support
    library cooperation and resource
    sharing, have earned her the respect
    of the library and information
    profession.”
    [...]obby
    Parliament on information access issues.”

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997
    [...]S

    TE MATAURANGA Mo AI<E AKE - INFORMATION Is FOR LIFE : WANGANUI (15-18 OCTOBER)

    Homai te rongopail

    C[...]onference organisers are grateful to the National Library for being Co-sponsors of the 1997 Conference alon[...]Conference newspaper with Sandra Metz from Wairoa Library and Dick Ward (a local journalist) gleaning news[...]you are unable to attend, read the next issue of Library Life for a debrief.

    KLZ kite zmo

    Jacquie Tonkin
    wap@[...]nimously Voted to become an
    incorporated society. Library Life talked to Jane

    Treadwell, National Convenor of t[...]se) and found that because not all NZLLG members

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997

    are also members of the[...]
    [...]f model libraries
    in Egypt and Spain, seminars on library management, the
    development of comparative perfor[...]erman libraries, a shareholding in it's home town library
    (also a model librarylibrary management with the objective of improving the
    pe[...]experience
    into model solutions for every public library. To achieve
    this the Foundation setup the Interna[...]ny.

    Sue Sutherland, Manager of Canterbury Public Library
    represents New Zealand. Criteria for invitation i[...]he
    field, publishing record, involvement of their library in
    information technology and the Internet. Sue s[...]d written up for publication include funding,
    the library and electronic media, customer focus, quality
    man[...]lib/
    index.htm.

    Sue Sutherland
    Canterbury Public Library Manager
    sut/1erlands@ccc.govt.nz

    LIBRARY LIEE 217, OCTOBER 1997
    [...]ION : FUND-RAISING FOR PRESERVATION

    The Auckland Library Heritage Trust holds a gala event,
    The Collectors’ Auction, at the Auckland Central City Library
    on 20th October. The list of donors reads as a "w[...]ctions held in
    Special Collections at the Central Library have been
    completed. Photographs by early Aucklan[...]ps and manuscripts have also received individual

    LIBRARY LIEE 217, OCTOBER 1997

    Signed photograph 0fMae W[...]Collector's Auction, Heritage Floor
    Central City Library, 20 October 20 at 6pm (time to zip
    back from the[...]t, c/o Special Collections, Auckland Central
    City Library PO Box 4138 Auckland 1.

    Theresa Graham
    Secretary, Auckland Library Heritage Trust,
    grahamt@akcity.govt.nZ



    4- John Stacpoole, member of the Auckland Library Heritage

    Trust with sonze of the books for auction
    This is a new regular column in Library Life. We need members to nominate sitesforfutme issues[...]site that acts as
    an information service for the library and information community
    in New Zealand.

    It is[...]t number of NZ
    librarians, and can be searched by library symbol and name of the
    institution.

    If you wa nt[...]ail discussion groups; SSBUBL has a listing of NZ library
    related discussion groups and how to sign on to t[...]es or online catalogues.

    If you're searching for library and information work i_n.NeW_
    Zealand, SSBUBL’s[...]Benton Foundation in 1996: http://wWw.benton.org/
    Library/Kellog/buildingshtml

    The Register of Australian[...]ion is at http://

    www.nla.g0v.au/raam/

    Internet Library for Librarians checkout the following
    sections: R[...]psl
    travel), Librarianship, Accessories (includes library journals,
    Internet tools for librarians and library systems). httpll

    www.itcompany.comlinforetriever[...]ce and Document Supply collections of the British
    Library (8.5 million titles). This will assist users as well as
    customers of the Library's Document Supply Centre wishing to
    check out hol[...]Plenty Regional Councillor

    ibsp1@twp.ac.nz

    Ll

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997

    To add/update informati[...]
    [...]Force to review the published
    communications (ie Library Life, NZ Libraries, electronic
    medium) and the profess[...]ook Awards.

    0 From discussions with the National Library : the IT
    project Business case is going to Cabine[...]tions, as well as
    having responsibility
    for RNZAF library
    services.



    Steve says his immediate key goals[...]tract is tighter than the proverbialll)

    Lilvrary Life saw Steve in action on day 3, quietly but[...]
    [...]possible)

    -> John Mohi speaking on the National Library's current
    Bicultural developments

    -> Barbara McI[...]ctober 1997 4-5:30pm, at the
    Wanganui High School Library.

    Agenda: Minutes, Apologies, Report and finances[...]the project leaders with the New Zealand Digital
    Library, an experimental library based wholly on digitised
    texts, fully searchable[...]tists and others to
    test how users might access a library that exists purely in
    electronic form. Sally-Jo is one of the project leaders with
    the New Zealand Digital Library (http://
    www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/cgi—bin/nzdlbeta/[...]www.knowledge—basl<et.co.nz/privaty/welcomehtm

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997

    ,__. , __,_..._
    [...]al Conference will be held at the
    Auckland Public Library on 7 November. Contact President,
    Roger Flury, National Library of New Zealand, Wellington.
    roger.flury@natlib.go[...]hland.ac.nz (bus.) or
    graeme@igrin.co.nz (home).

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997



    WHAIA TE ITI KAHURANGI
    SCHOLARSHIP : PARLIAMENTARY
    LIBRARY MAoRI STAFF
    SCHOLARSHIP

    The Parliamentary Library is currently advertising
    for applicants for the a[...]ri people to join the.
    staff of the Parliamentary Library and to take
    part in the profession

    0 improve the Parliamentary Library staff’s

    understanding of Maori culture

    I impr[...]for service quality would include the presence
    of Library Staff with language fluency as well as
    thorough[...]Maori graduate will be employed
    for one year as a Library Assistant at the Parliamentary
    Library on full pay, then studies full—time in the Master
    of Library & Information Studies course at Victoria
    Universi[...]s they are required to work as a Librarian
    in the Library for at least 12 months.

    The Maori Library & Information Workers’
    Association Te Ropfi Whakahau commended the
    Parliamentary Library. “It’s a great initiative”, said
    secretary,[...]urrently
    studying for her MLIS. The Parliamentary Library is
    hoping for a positive response as the p[...]
    NATIONAL LIBRARY NEws

    NEW TRUSTEE APPOINTED

    Wyatt Creech, Minister for the National Library, has
    announced the appointment of Joanne Tyndall as a Trustee
    of the National Library. Her appointment commenced in
    September 1997 and[...]ees are a crown entity set Lip under the National
    Library Act 1965 to advise the Minister on the progress and
    identity of the National Library, and on library development
    in New Zealand. Eight trustees are ap[...]who passed away last year.

    WHAT Is THE NATIONAL LIBRARY?

    The National Library has published a new general
    introduction to it's[...]page brochure is available
    free from the National Library and from its Service Centres.
    For a copy contact Lynne Gallie, National Library, 04-474
    3000, X8725.

    NATIONAL PRESERVATION OEEIC[...]last month and
    is a joint venture by the National Library of New Zealand
    and National Archives. It aims to[...]It will also provide
    guidance to New Zealand’s library and archival network, and
    support the development[...]f conservation issues, from Outbreaks of mould
    in library collections to how to go about setting up a New
    Z[...]Maori, is extending work started at the National
    Library in 1994. ”For M'a'ori, conserving documentary
    h[...]IC MANAGEMENT IN NATIONAL LIBRARIES

    The National Library’s report on strategic management
    in l 1 nationa[...]W/eb sites.

    Its author, Anna Chalmers, National Library Research
    Unit, says the study found that national[...]http://

    Copies are available from the National Library shop at
    $9.45 (incl GST).

    CHRISTOPHER BLAKE : NE[...]akes up his
    appointment on 20 October.

    LibI'aI'y Life will be interviewing Christopher Blake after
    he h[...]brarian. I believe
    that I am joining the National Library at an exciting point in
    its development. Library staff have worked hard this year to
    formalise a strategic direction for the Library This strategy,
    which was outlined in the Moving F[...]and is intended to provide stable
    ground for the Library. It is well-known that the past year
    has been a challenging one for the Library. However, the
    foundations have now been laid for the Library to move
    forward positively.

    It will be my job to ensure that the Library works
    effectively with the library community to support access to
    information. I hop[...]h, to be able to give you

    some details about the Library’s plans for its information
    systems.

    I look fo[...]will be speaking about the future of the
    National Library, particularly in relation to other New Zealand
    li[...]find out
    more about what you can expect from the Library”.

    Christogher Blake
    LIBRARY LIEE 217, OcToBER 1997
    LIBRARY EDUCATION NEWS

    MLIS NEWS

    Michael Brittain is th[...]rsity. He takes
    up his position in early October. Library Life hopes to
    interview him in a future issue.

    Michae[...]nformation
    Management
    aIz'stair.smitl1@vaw.ac.nz

    LIBRARY l.|FE 217, OCTOBER 1997



    ScHooL or LIBRARY STUDIES/OPEN
    POLYTECHNIC NEWS

    It is business as[...]ether with the project leader and Information and Library
    Studies Section Manager. The first three courses[...]lor of Applied
    Science, including Information and Library Studies, will be
    available late this year.

    Certi[...]position as temporary lecturer with the School of Library
    Studies, taking responsibility for one of[...]
    [...]er information contact Hinureina
    Mangan, National Library Hamilton. Ph 07/856 9135 or 025
    242 1163, Fax 07/[...]IONAL ACTIVITIES

    The International Federation of Library Associations
    (IFLA) is advertising the above vaca[...]orrow today: can you imagine...? Brisbane. Public
    Library, Reference and Information Services

    Section. Ema[...]NATIONAL
    October 15-18, 1997

    Information is for life: Te Matanranga mo ake ake, Wanganui.
    NZLIA. Web s[...]ZLIA: nzlia@netlink.co.nz

    AIMA: aima@nla.gov.au

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997
    [...]d into 4 regions. Area coordinators (who are also
    library centre managers) have been appointed in each regi[...]librarian) and Colleen Christie (Takapuna senior library
    assistant) recently joined the city councils long[...]oposing to dis—established the
    position of City Library Manager (held by Vernon Napier)
    and Manager Techn[...]month term.

    %’%FYI.‘ LIBRARIES

    The Central Library Building, University of
    Canterbury will be closed over the summer for earthquake
    strengthening. This Library holds the arts, social sciences,
    commerce, life sciences, fine arts and music collections,
    Restricted Loans, Audio visual and Rare Books collections.

    The Library will close from 13 November until late
    February 1[...]s time. The phone and fax
    numbers for the Central Library remain the same. — RW
    Hlavac.

    DUNEDIN PUBLIC LIBRARIES, LIBRARY WEEK - ”THE
    BIG DAY IN’’

    Jugglers, cake de[...]dio enthusiasts, chess players
    and clowns brought library books to life at the Dunedin
    Public Libraries Big Day In held in August. The Library
    sponsored demonstrations of crafts and clubs as a way of
    highlighting the library as a centre for community
    information, instead of the annual Library Week.

    A costume parade featured library staff attired in exquisite
    dresses and suits from[...]s agreed that the staff had never
    looked better.

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997



    Long serving librari[...]
    [...]ABLE TRUST FUNDS NEW

    NETWORK

    The Rotorua Public Library has received $31,000
    funding from the Rotorua Ene[...]for community projects. The Friends
    of the Public Library have also donated a further $6,000.
    Details of th[...]purchase 7 terminals to cover the 2 floors of the Library
    building.

    The Library has recently installed scanners, receipt
    printers[...]was offset by giving away fridge magnets carrying library
    information. The slips can also print a small sta[...]South Taranaki District Libraries recently ran a Library
    poster competition, which was one of a series of[...]round the District. - Gillian King, Egmont Public
    Library, Opunake

    INFORMATION INDUSTRY News

    MAID TAKEOVE[...]Krogh,
    First NZ Capital

    sally.krogh@fnzc.co.nz

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997
    A meeting of the JSCI was held at the National Library in
    Wellington on Friday 19 September 1997. The fo[...]s to lnterloan
    libraries provided by the National Library, since the provision
    of training in the use of lnterloan systems is the role of Library
    managers and not the JSCI.

    The revised Handbook[...]patterns and trends, in view of the huge amount

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997

    REPORT FROM THE JOINT STANDING[...]these, as has been done in the
    past.

    NEW ZEALAND LIBRARY SYMBOLS

    The National Library was requested to make the essential
    and rapidly-c[...]mittee considered the present form of New
    Zealand library symbols. While there are some anomalies,
    it was n[...]to provide
    translation tables which would enable library holdings to be
    displayed in a tailored way by reg[...]ID and NUC symbol, and/or those of the
    requesting library, or had submitted invalid lIDs. These are
    listed[...]equest numbers longer than 15 characters, and
    one library had filled in the (late of request in Amer[...]
    by S80 to the submitting library for correction, and the
    transactions incorporated[...]s will be available.

    EXTENSION OE THE I35 To NoN-LIBRARY

    PURCHASERS

    The JSCI endorsed the principle, set[...]lling System.

    Tony Millett
    University of Waikato LibraryLIBRARY l.|FE 217, OCTOBER 1997
    [...]be able to assist with promotion
    and publicity of library services, develop policies, and will be
    dedicated to providing quality core library services for clients.

    An application form, job d[...]ager

    Te Puna A/Iatauranga o Aotearoa

    V NATIONAL LIBRARY

    OF NEVV ZEALAND

    ASSISTANT REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
    C[...]ce skills and experience

    a knowledge of National Library services to schools

    the ability to work as part[...]skills

    bicultural awareness and understanding

    a library qualification/degree and/or teaching experience.[...]72 SITOUILI reach HR Personnel Services, National Library of
    New Zealand, PO Box 1467, Wellington, no later than Tuesday 28 October 1997.

    The National Library has an equal employment opportunity policy, and a[...]ing its objectives under the Treaty of Waitangi.

    LIBRARY LIFE

    DEADLINES

    Editorial Vacancies[...]aeme Siddle (PU)

    Te Ran Herenga o Aotearoa




    Library Life 217, October 1997
    ISSN 0110-4373 Published by the
    New Zealand Library
    Er Information Association,
    Level 6, 139-141 Feat[...]d by NZ Print, Wellington.

    Opinions expressed in Library Lite are not necessarily
    those of the Association[...]ents express
    official policy, this is indicated.

    LIBRARY LIFE 217, OCTOBER 1997

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